Private Equity

someone will start using the "I" word, as in insolvency, just letting the funds go bust. Or perhaps Rauner, a private-equity man by training, will come up with some stunning new financial solution. Don't hold your breath, folks. It

S. chain of restaurants that serves strictly vegan food. Native Foods last April landed $15 million from two private-equity firms, Laurel Crown Partners of Los Angeles and Huntington Capital of San Diego, to help fuel its expansion. It

is still playing offense with the help of its new private-equity ownership. In its latest move to dominate big data ..... installed by Stats' new owner, San Francisco-based private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners, which bought Stats in

mobile industries, rather than a private-equity acquirer. Wall Street analysts are ..... factors make it less likely for a privateequity firm to do the deal, analysts say. Motorola ..... safety business in Europe. Private-equity buyers will struggle to make

considering a sale, may find itself in the crosshairs of private-equity firms or contractors seeking a bigger slice of the government ..... equipment makers.” Potential buyers could include private-equity firms, which may want to strip out costs to sell

location this fall. Crunch, which is co-owned by Lafayette, Calif.-based New Evolution Ventures and New York privateequity firm Angelo Gordon has about 90 active gym locations worldwide, including 82 franchise locations in 12 states, Puerto

that was bought two years ago by Primus Capital, a private-equity firm in Cleveland. “We were the first money in ..... gold. Kiphart, like Gov. Bruce Rauner, a former private-equity investor, was a board member of Divine InterVentures

and $700 million in debt capacity. Investors include renowned venture-capital firm Tiger Global Management, private-equity titan KKR and Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal. But Goldstein, who launched the online payday lender that now

audience expects to hear the former private-equity executive outline big changes ..... better than in his last major private-equity deal, which ended in bankruptcy. Their ..... Ripplewood Holdings , where he led the private-equity firm's investments, primarily

Goldstein, 60, usually wears a suit and carries a briefcase as managing director of Frontenac, a Chicago-based private-equity firm. But there was a time when he wore tie-dye and carried a camera to photograph one of his favorite bands

ll see. It's true that, if you don't ask, you don't get. It's also true that Rauner the successful private-equity mogul is used to firing off orders and is on a governmental leaning curve. Maybe we'll learn that he's one tough

Quinn but certainly needs lots of stuff from Springfield that fellow financier Rauner—both used to be in the private-equity business—could help arrange. The governor also can try hardball, such as proposing a budget that just whacks

imbalance "a time bomb for taxpayers and the economy." But Rauner leaves out a critical point, despite being a former privateequity investor who boasts of success in investing pension funds for Illinois teachers and firefighters: The state also

bid had also helped rehabilitate Romney's image by showing the more compassionate, family-oriented side of the privateequity titan—giving his champions hope that the public could connect with him in a different way. He spent the last